1. as opposed to tying insurance to the state, where it can fine/jail people who cannot afford it, and drive down quality of care by dictating prices to caregivers which do not reflect their costs/market realities. I have an idea: don't make insurance mandatory, for anything. It is slavery for those who really can't afford it.
2. At least they are working. Unemployment benefits are for those who are cannot get work or cannot work due to extreme disability.
3. I consider the cultural marxist/PC indoctrination going on at public schools as a dumbing down. Identity politics are what give people these dependent attitudes by constructing these castes in their minds. Teaching them how to think critically/out of box, along with some life skills seems to be at the bottom of the priority list. This was true as of the early/mid 1990s when I was at one of the supposedly 'better' public systems in the country. For example, a lot of time was spent on 'suffrage' of various groups, and very little was spent on our financial system. Health class was a mouthpiece for gay rights activists and feminists, and teachers were more concerned about someone bringing a metal fork to eat his lunch than they were about his mastery of algebra. It's most likely worse today.
4. I don't have a problem with birth control, but I do have a problem with the left giving women all the trump cards. If men are going to be held accountable for her choice, then they should have valid sway over said choices. It won't be 'social justice' until her body, her right, her choice, is also solely her responsibility. It's not just 'a woman's issue' if he is held even the slightest bit accountable for her behavior or choice. In fact, I think abortions are the only thing the state should fund for unmarried women. It's cheaper than dealing with the poorly raised thugspawns later. Society needs to encourage mommy to get daddy back in the home as a valid authority figure, or no state aid for the would-be kid, and daddy should have a choice in that, too. Men should not be slaves of this system. Of course, even bringing up this discussion causes feminist heads to explode. It's that identity politics entitlement complex talking.
5. Ideologically charged science is always a bad idea. While the neocons have vested interests in torpedoing climatology, the left has accepted these positions because they imply a greater role for government. It's not like they don't also have a selfish motive, here, that biases scientific objectivity.
If it was, death would've evolved out of the system. In fact, the longer the lifespan of each generation, the longer it takes to adapt to change. There are always tradeoffs.
Actually, a more apt analogy would include the stipulation that a government agent would be there watching you all for the afternoon, recording all of your conversations, taking pictures/video, and storing them for possible future criminal cases involving one or more of you. In that case, I'd pick the 30 minutes option, or just find somewhere else to be for the afternoon.
You're just measuring prosperity by how far left the government is with its policies. That's hardly the only relevant measurement. The terms 'progressive', 'xenophobic', 'education', 'solidarity', and 'compassion' are so heavily loaded in your statement (and in the statements of most leftwing politicians) they are essentially meaningless. The left routinely violates the real definitions of these terms when it comes time to tolerate those that wish to live by differing views (that aren't on the white list). Suddenly, the dirty bootheels come out of the woodwork to 'reeducate' them away from their 'anti-social' behavior.
'progressive': is supposed to mean an objective net-improvement. in leftwing newspeak, it means 'more culturally marxist policy than yesterday.'
'xenophobic': is supposed to mean someone who fears a different culture. in left wing newspeak, it means someone who questions the law-given privileges to the castes labeled as oppressed. This ad-hominem is often hurled at people who question immigration policy. A related term used in the same way is 'homophobe'.
'education': Is supposed to teach people how to think logically and give them skillsets they need to function in reality. When left wing politicians use it, they're really referencing a system meant to indoctrinate politically correct views onto society's next generation.
'solidarity': oft abused by hardline communist governments. It's meant to foster a desire to serve others before the individual, which is laudable, except that in many cases, such governments are asking their citizens to give up unreasonable fractions their life's produce and effort, and in many historical cases, basic necessities as well.
'compassion': more shaming language. In its most extreme forms, the left wing politician uses it to shame citizens who refuse to give up just a little more than they did yesterday.
So, if we're just supposed to use the search box for everything, why not just get rid of the rest of the interface and have a command prompt? Of course, having a simple menu in the corner that starts applications is probably faster if your hand is already on the mouse from previous tasks. It's metro that's the fault here, not start menus or mice or command prompts.
You may as well claim that negotiating trade agreements with China will force the US to become a communist state.
Interesting that you say this.. We are dependent on china, and we are moving towards a heavily centralized state. Note this is not meant as correlation.
No it doesn't. DNS has nothing to do with surveillance. Governments still think that they can censor sites by disabling name resolution. They are fools.
Of course not. Not yet. The cost of tracking joe nobody currently exceeds the extra value (whether financial or psychological) that can be extracted from him if he's monitored. Of course, it's not just whether he's monitored or not. It's his right to know whether he is, to know what's being said about him by various databases gatekeepers tap into when he applies for jobs, loans, licenses, or just about anything. When the cost drops to a point where it's possible, it will happen.
Just because jack steals one stick of candy and points to joe who stole 6, doesn't mean we should ignore what jack is doing. It is likely he will emulate joe at some point in the future. Frankly, I don't care what other countries are doing. If their citizens want liberty, they need to stand up for it. Our failed attempts at 'nation building' over the last half century have proven that. I am comparing the USA of the past to the USA of now. The trend is getting worse and looks to get a lot worse. This obsession over 'safety' IS the problem. Talk about crying over spilled milk. We're told daily by the media of all these 'threats', and yet less than 1% of them materialize. I tire of this narrative. I see no threat that justifies the power grabs washington has engaged in over the last 20 years or so. If anyone is making fallacious slippery slope arguments, it's the politicians in DC.
If there ARE threats out there that are subverting our society, then it's congress' duty to declare war on the countries harboring them. War, not useless perpetual 'police actions' that sound like something out of orwell's 1984 (we were always at war with al quada). Wars have a finite goal: hit the enemy until he is no longer a threat. We don't defend our way of life by supplicating and compromising with these people like our politicians do now.
No. The government is already failing. We're starting to realize that throwing more money at it is just magnifying the scope of failure. In fact, it's time for daddy to take the credit card away from his16yo princess spendthrift daughter.
This only happens if you're an idiot, like the average libertarian that infests this site.
No. it happens when the law primarily serves the interests of those in power (or their benefactors) instead of individual liberty.
Smart socialists know how to always remain in power.
quite true. The soviet union and north korea are great examples.
The worst people in the world are those that don't know how to socialize with other members of society, and socialization is formally structured in society through a government.
That depends on your definition of 'socialize'. The word's been defined and redefined so many times for so much self serving arrogance, I'm not sure it has a valid objective meaning anymore. These days it's newspeak that really means "compliant with the norms of the group", or "team player", someone who never rocks the boat, even when it's necessary to tell the uncomfortable truth and cause someone to have to save face.
When you people state "I fear and mistrust government", what the rest of us hear is "I fear and mistrust other members of society".
No. Government is its own entity, just like any other group of people. They form hierarchies within hierarchies, complete with their own groupthink and 'mission statements.' Really, they're just the adult versions of highschool cliques, except the stakes are much higher. They share all the same low level hazing, peer-pressure, and passive aggressive politics of their adolescent counterparts. Like students who are or are not a part of these cliques, the bureaucrats of government are a distinctly separate class from everyone else. After awhile, many of them truly believe that they are a cut above everyone else by default. This is a big part of what we're facing today.
Can you explain how you benefit us? Do you think you produce more tax revenue than we pay for you? Do you think the road we paved for you all the way out to your private secluded hideout so you can avoid the rest of society came for free?
Hey, I didn't ask for anyone to spend money on my behalf. You sound like that guy who washes my windshield at a stop light when it doesn't need washing, and then gets upset when I refuse to give him $5. What a citizen typically faces in socialist nations in final stages of collapse goes like this: How do you benefit 'us', citizen? I'm sure it's insufficient compared to what The People have done for you. Report to reeducation camp #119 for 'processing'! I don't think it's that bad yet, but obviously, you are already there. Now that is sad.
Publicly funded roads are a far cry from overt surveillance and psychological manipulation (ie terrorist fear mongering) which are the precursors to extremely large powergrabs. Oh, and I never said I disagreed with public roads. You need to put down the NYT liberal talking points guide.
Is that what you want us to hear from you libertarians? That you're a precious snowflake and that you don't want to do what government tells you to do, because you're a precious snowflake?
No. The precious snowflakes are the ones who think they're owed something from taxpayers because they believe their race, gender, orientation, or some other arbitrary difference, makes them think they are perpetual victims of some paranoid conspiracy they probably picked up from public schooling or the media. The sad part is, many of them probably are victims of this brainwashing. They do make reliable voters, don't they? Gotta love identity politics. If you knew anything about them, you'd know libertarians believe in rule of law, not in identity politics. That means everyone is equal before it; no favoritism. However, they also believe that the laws that are on the books should be rational instead of based on heat of the moment politicking. They understand that when humans are packed into groups, they're pr
You know, one of these days, you will be the one arrested and thrown in prison without due process for 'terroristic acts', or some other set of stacked charges that cannot be challenged in court because they're matters of 'national security'. It's people like you that allow wannabe tyrants to bypass civil liberties and seize power in the first place. It is a known fact that the feds are breaking the law to pursue their own political or financial agendas. While it is true that the NSA/CIA were chartered to monitor foreign governments, what they've been up to since then has obviously come up short of expectation. They need reigning in and refocusing. Heads need to roll.
Governments are only ineffective at the things they promised but aren't in the best interests of the high level bureaucrats. Governments are scarily effective at doing whatever it is those in power really want to do. After all, all an employer can do is fire you, but a government can throw you in a box and toss the key.
I fear the federal government more than some 13th century thugs from the middle east. Groupthink is the most powerful religion in existence. bin laden's goal was to get us to do his work for him, to destroy ourselves from within. So far, he's won every battle.
Freedom is irrelevant. Self-determination is irrelevant. Existence as you know it is over. We will add your biological and technological labor to our own. Your liberty will adapt to service us... resistance is futile!
With your example, unless you're extremely wealthy, no, not really. Most people cannot afford to sue over every slight, though many are trying these days. Libel/slander are not the only ways adults bully each other, but if we (re)learn to let more of it to roll of our backs, we'd be better off as a society because we wouldn't feel the need to wield big brother/big sister against each other out of passive-aggressive spite.
I see no reason why being a school gives them some kind of special dispensation to dictate what's broadcast over the spectrum. What stops this from expanding to cell service? Radio? TV? The same argument could be made there. I said that yikyak shouldn't shut down over this, that's all. Obviously they can do what they want, but I think they're doing society a disservice by kowtowing to the crowd that always (ab)uses the omg-the-children excuse to make it easier for them at others' expense.
On the contrary I could see several uses. Just because everyone knows everyone doesn't mean there's no room or use for anonymity. The kids have phones already. There's a really simple rule that works just fine for handling problems: If the kid's repeatedly distracting, throw him out of the classroom. If it happens multiple times, call the parents. If there are policies that prevent this rule from working, change the policies. Stealing/wiping/dictating software loadouts on students' phones is pure control freakery on the part of the faculty and is totally unnecessary. This mentality isn't just limited to the school system either. The whole government bureaucracy is oozing with it.
"'The problem, as you might imagine, is that the anonymity is empowering certain individuals to post comments about others that are hurtful, harassing and sometimes quite disturbing,'
I'd rather have this happen than have the police state alternative. Kids need to learn to deal with bullying on their own terms and today's PC society won't allow it. I think most of the real damage from bullying comes from politically correct policy and faculty, who make it nearly impossible for the underdog kids to hash it out with their peers without the threat of all kinds of imposed 'consequences'. It doesn't take much to set off these PC types, so the arena is quite limited indeed. No wonder kids are encouraged to bottle it up these days, and then explode years later in a columbine.
I don't see why yikyak or any business should shut down just because schools complain.. Since when do schools have (or should have) any authority outside their walls? This is more of that left wing blame-chain game they play, where they get to shout 'goose' when their target is tapped on the head. The proof of the fallacy is that their argument could be used to target any provider of two way communication, or anyone who funds them.. or... It's just a question of how far up the chain their target is.
Just because a root CA is installed doesn't mean someone's spying on you. In order for it to be used, the service in question would have to have a cert signed by it. In order to do pervasive spying, they'd have to have every tls enabled site on the internet complicit in it. They don't. This cert is likely for their own applications/services. WPA2 enterprise mode uses 802.1x which uses certs.. That's probably what it's for. Same if they use 802.1x for wired authentication. If you're worried about sniffing, make your own tunnel.
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The left cherry picks from science to push its ideology the same way neocons use finance factoids (and the christian religion) to justify theirs.
1. as opposed to tying insurance to the state, where it can fine/jail people who cannot afford it, and drive down quality of care by dictating prices to caregivers which do not reflect their costs/market realities. I have an idea: don't make insurance mandatory, for anything. It is slavery for those who really can't afford it.
2. At least they are working. Unemployment benefits are for those who are cannot get work or cannot work due to extreme disability.
3. I consider the cultural marxist/PC indoctrination going on at public schools as a dumbing down. Identity politics are what give people these dependent attitudes by constructing these castes in their minds. Teaching them how to think critically/out of box, along with some life skills seems to be at the bottom of the priority list. This was true as of the early/mid 1990s when I was at one of the supposedly 'better' public systems in the country. For example, a lot of time was spent on 'suffrage' of various groups, and very little was spent on our financial system. Health class was a mouthpiece for gay rights activists and feminists, and teachers were more concerned about someone bringing a metal fork to eat his lunch than they were about his mastery of algebra. It's most likely worse today.
4. I don't have a problem with birth control, but I do have a problem with the left giving women all the trump cards. If men are going to be held accountable for her choice, then they should have valid sway over said choices. It won't be 'social justice' until her body, her right, her choice, is also solely her responsibility. It's not just 'a woman's issue' if he is held even the slightest bit accountable for her behavior or choice. In fact, I think abortions are the only thing the state should fund for unmarried women. It's cheaper than dealing with the poorly raised thugspawns later. Society needs to encourage mommy to get daddy back in the home as a valid authority figure, or no state aid for the would-be kid, and daddy should have a choice in that, too. Men should not be slaves of this system. Of course, even bringing up this discussion causes feminist heads to explode. It's that identity politics entitlement complex talking.
5. Ideologically charged science is always a bad idea. While the neocons have vested interests in torpedoing climatology, the left has accepted these positions because they imply a greater role for government. It's not like they don't also have a selfish motive, here, that biases scientific objectivity.
If it was, death would've evolved out of the system. In fact, the longer the lifespan of each generation, the longer it takes to adapt to change. There are always tradeoffs.
All of this is only because employers might be assigning worth to degrees that may not actually be there.
Why would a keyboard player sit on a couch?
terrible analogy. facebook is so much more destructive to social interaction than a paper book that's basically a large rolodex.
Actually, a more apt analogy would include the stipulation that a government agent would be there watching you all for the afternoon, recording all of your conversations, taking pictures/video, and storing them for possible future criminal cases involving one or more of you. In that case, I'd pick the 30 minutes option, or just find somewhere else to be for the afternoon.
Yeah, just what we all want..an online identity tied to our real info that can track us as we move across domains.. I'll pass..
You're just measuring prosperity by how far left the government is with its policies. That's hardly the only relevant measurement. The terms 'progressive', 'xenophobic', 'education', 'solidarity', and 'compassion' are so heavily loaded in your statement (and in the statements of most leftwing politicians) they are essentially meaningless. The left routinely violates the real definitions of these terms when it comes time to tolerate those that wish to live by differing views (that aren't on the white list). Suddenly, the dirty bootheels come out of the woodwork to 'reeducate' them away from their 'anti-social' behavior.
'progressive': is supposed to mean an objective net-improvement. in leftwing newspeak, it means 'more culturally marxist policy than yesterday.'
'xenophobic': is supposed to mean someone who fears a different culture. in left wing newspeak, it means someone who questions the law-given privileges to the castes labeled as oppressed. This ad-hominem is often hurled at people who question immigration policy. A related term used in the same way is 'homophobe'.
'education': Is supposed to teach people how to think logically and give them skillsets they need to function in reality. When left wing politicians use it, they're really referencing a system meant to indoctrinate politically correct views onto society's next generation.
'solidarity': oft abused by hardline communist governments. It's meant to foster a desire to serve others before the individual, which is laudable, except that in many cases, such governments are asking their citizens to give up unreasonable fractions their life's produce and effort, and in many historical cases, basic necessities as well.
'compassion': more shaming language. In its most extreme forms, the left wing politician uses it to shame citizens who refuse to give up just a little more than they did yesterday.
So, if we're just supposed to use the search box for everything, why not just get rid of the rest of the interface and have a command prompt? Of course, having a simple menu in the corner that starts applications is probably faster if your hand is already on the mouse from previous tasks. It's metro that's the fault here, not start menus or mice or command prompts.
overweight soccer moms running the weightwatchers app. Their kids chatting on failbook.
It's sad, but computing has finally become mainstream enough to start degenerating along with the rest of society.
You may as well claim that negotiating trade agreements with China will force the US to become a communist state.
Interesting that you say this.. We are dependent on china, and we are moving towards a heavily centralized state. Note this is not meant as correlation.
No it doesn't. DNS has nothing to do with surveillance. Governments still think that they can censor sites by disabling name resolution. They are fools.
Why should we emulate any of those just because they're commercialized?
Of course not. Not yet. The cost of tracking joe nobody currently exceeds the extra value (whether financial or psychological) that can be extracted from him if he's monitored. Of course, it's not just whether he's monitored or not. It's his right to know whether he is, to know what's being said about him by various databases gatekeepers tap into when he applies for jobs, loans, licenses, or just about anything. When the cost drops to a point where it's possible, it will happen.
Just because jack steals one stick of candy and points to joe who stole 6, doesn't mean we should ignore what jack is doing. It is likely he will emulate joe at some point in the future. Frankly, I don't care what other countries are doing. If their citizens want liberty, they need to stand up for it. Our failed attempts at 'nation building' over the last half century have proven that. I am comparing the USA of the past to the USA of now. The trend is getting worse and looks to get a lot worse. This obsession over 'safety' IS the problem. Talk about crying over spilled milk. We're told daily by the media of all these 'threats', and yet less than 1% of them materialize. I tire of this narrative. I see no threat that justifies the power grabs washington has engaged in over the last 20 years or so. If anyone is making fallacious slippery slope arguments, it's the politicians in DC.
If there ARE threats out there that are subverting our society, then it's congress' duty to declare war on the countries harboring them. War, not useless perpetual 'police actions' that sound like something out of orwell's 1984 (we were always at war with al quada). Wars have a finite goal: hit the enemy until he is no longer a threat. We don't defend our way of life by supplicating and compromising with these people like our politicians do now.
No. The government is already failing. We're starting to realize that throwing more money at it is just magnifying the scope of failure. In fact, it's time for daddy to take the credit card away from his16yo princess spendthrift daughter.
This only happens if you're an idiot, like the average libertarian that infests this site.
No. it happens when the law primarily serves the interests of those in power (or their benefactors) instead of individual liberty.
Smart socialists know how to always remain in power.
quite true. The soviet union and north korea are great examples.
The worst people in the world are those that don't know how to socialize with other members of society, and socialization is formally structured in society through a government.
That depends on your definition of 'socialize'. The word's been defined and redefined so many times for so much self serving arrogance, I'm not sure it has a valid objective meaning anymore. These days it's newspeak that really means "compliant with the norms of the group", or "team player", someone who never rocks the boat, even when it's necessary to tell the uncomfortable truth and cause someone to have to save face.
When you people state "I fear and mistrust government", what the rest of us hear is "I fear and mistrust other members of society".
No. Government is its own entity, just like any other group of people. They form hierarchies within hierarchies, complete with their own groupthink and 'mission statements.' Really, they're just the adult versions of highschool cliques, except the stakes are much higher. They share all the same low level hazing, peer-pressure, and passive aggressive politics of their adolescent counterparts. Like students who are or are not a part of these cliques, the bureaucrats of government are a distinctly separate class from everyone else. After awhile, many of them truly believe that they are a cut above everyone else by default. This is a big part of what we're facing today.
Can you explain how you benefit us? Do you think you produce more tax revenue than we pay for you? Do you think the road we paved for you all the way out to your private secluded hideout so you can avoid the rest of society came for free?
Hey, I didn't ask for anyone to spend money on my behalf. You sound like that guy who washes my windshield at a stop light when it doesn't need washing, and then gets upset when I refuse to give him $5. What a citizen typically faces in socialist nations in final stages of collapse goes like this: How do you benefit 'us', citizen? I'm sure it's insufficient compared to what The People have done for you. Report to reeducation camp #119 for 'processing'! I don't think it's that bad yet, but obviously, you are already there. Now that is sad.
Publicly funded roads are a far cry from overt surveillance and psychological manipulation (ie terrorist fear mongering) which are the precursors to extremely large powergrabs. Oh, and I never said I disagreed with public roads. You need to put down the NYT liberal talking points guide.
Is that what you want us to hear from you libertarians? That you're a precious snowflake and that you don't want to do what government tells you to do, because you're a precious snowflake?
No. The precious snowflakes are the ones who think they're owed something from taxpayers because they believe their race, gender, orientation, or some other arbitrary difference, makes them think they are perpetual victims of some paranoid conspiracy they probably picked up from public schooling or the media. The sad part is, many of them probably are victims of this brainwashing. They do make reliable voters, don't they? Gotta love identity politics. If you knew anything about them, you'd know libertarians believe in rule of law, not in identity politics. That means everyone is equal before it; no favoritism. However, they also believe that the laws that are on the books should be rational instead of based on heat of the moment politicking. They understand that when humans are packed into groups, they're pr
You know, one of these days, you will be the one arrested and thrown in prison without due process for 'terroristic acts', or some other set of stacked charges that cannot be challenged in court because they're matters of 'national security'. It's people like you that allow wannabe tyrants to bypass civil liberties and seize power in the first place. It is a known fact that the feds are breaking the law to pursue their own political or financial agendas. While it is true that the NSA/CIA were chartered to monitor foreign governments, what they've been up to since then has obviously come up short of expectation. They need reigning in and refocusing. Heads need to roll.
Governments are only ineffective at the things they promised but aren't in the best interests of the high level bureaucrats. Governments are scarily effective at doing whatever it is those in power really want to do. After all, all an employer can do is fire you, but a government can throw you in a box and toss the key.
I fear the federal government more than some 13th century thugs from the middle east. Groupthink is the most powerful religion in existence. bin laden's goal was to get us to do his work for him, to destroy ourselves from within. So far, he's won every battle.
Freedom is irrelevant. Self-determination is irrelevant. Existence as you know it is over. We will add your biological and technological labor to our own. Your liberty will adapt to service us... resistance is futile!
It probably pays well.
Another useless 'study' that falls into the 'duh' category for me. Who funds this rubbish and why?
Even multi configurations with top model GPUs don't do well with 3840x2400 resolutions.
Those of us doing more with computers than editing text documents and refreshing facebook still need descrete GPUs.
With your example, unless you're extremely wealthy, no, not really. Most people cannot afford to sue over every slight, though many are trying these days. Libel/slander are not the only ways adults bully each other, but if we (re)learn to let more of it to roll of our backs, we'd be better off as a society because we wouldn't feel the need to wield big brother/big sister against each other out of passive-aggressive spite.
I see no reason why being a school gives them some kind of special dispensation to dictate what's broadcast over the spectrum. What stops this from expanding to cell service? Radio? TV? The same argument could be made there. I said that yikyak shouldn't shut down over this, that's all. Obviously they can do what they want, but I think they're doing society a disservice by kowtowing to the crowd that always (ab)uses the omg-the-children excuse to make it easier for them at others' expense.
On the contrary I could see several uses. Just because everyone knows everyone doesn't mean there's no room or use for anonymity. The kids have phones already. There's a really simple rule that works just fine for handling problems: If the kid's repeatedly distracting, throw him out of the classroom. If it happens multiple times, call the parents. If there are policies that prevent this rule from working, change the policies. Stealing/wiping/dictating software loadouts on students' phones is pure control freakery on the part of the faculty and is totally unnecessary. This mentality isn't just limited to the school system either. The whole government bureaucracy is oozing with it.
Banning tools never fixes social problems.
"'The problem, as you might imagine, is that the anonymity is empowering certain individuals to post comments about others that are hurtful, harassing and sometimes quite disturbing,'
I'd rather have this happen than have the police state alternative. Kids need to learn to deal with bullying on their own terms and today's PC society won't allow it. I think most of the real damage from bullying comes from politically correct policy and faculty, who make it nearly impossible for the underdog kids to hash it out with their peers without the threat of all kinds of imposed 'consequences'. It doesn't take much to set off these PC types, so the arena is quite limited indeed. No wonder kids are encouraged to bottle it up these days, and then explode years later in a columbine.
I don't see why yikyak or any business should shut down just because schools complain.. Since when do schools have (or should have) any authority outside their walls? This is more of that left wing blame-chain game they play, where they get to shout 'goose' when their target is tapped on the head. The proof of the fallacy is that their argument could be used to target any provider of two way communication, or anyone who funds them.. or... It's just a question of how far up the chain their target is.
Just because a root CA is installed doesn't mean someone's spying on you. In order for it to be used, the service in question would have to have a cert signed by it. In order to do pervasive spying, they'd have to have every tls enabled site on the internet complicit in it. They don't. This cert is likely for their own applications/services. WPA2 enterprise mode uses 802.1x which uses certs.. That's probably what it's for. Same if they use 802.1x for wired authentication. If you're worried about sniffing, make your own tunnel.